Frank Daniel

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Frank Daniel, Czechoslovak-born filmmaker who, faced with Soviet persecution, fled to the U.S. after producing the 1965 movieThe Shop on Main Street, which won an Academy Award for best foreign film; in the U.S. he headed several film schools (b. April 14, 1926--d. Feb. 29, 1996).